Then duplicate your scene by right-clicking it and selecting duplicate. Pro Tip: Try creating a virtual set inside of OBS. If you want to create different views, you can create different OBS scenes to switch in-between. Using the OBS layering system, you can put your video in-between the background and foreground. Using your camera with a green screen background, you can apply the chroma-key filter to remove the background. To use virtual sets inside of OBS you need to create a scene with a background and foreground. But you can still make virtual sets and use them in OBS. OBS does not have a 3D virtual set engine the same way that vMix does. You might be thinking at this point, hey I use OBS, what about me? Well we have an entire video on how to use the free virtual sets mentioned above in OBS. Virtual sets for zoom from Paul Richards Using Virtual Sets with OBS It’s a great way to turn a studio or home office area into any area that you would like. The result is a good looking virtual set where you actually look like you are in a new place. Virtual sets generally leverage a video camera with a green screen background that can be used with chroma-key technology to remove the background. The result is a combination of media assets that you can use to put your video image in-between. If you would like to make your own virtual set, you only need to create a high resolution background file and combine it with a nice foreground png image. But how does it all work?įirst of all, what is a virtual set? Virtual sets are just like digital layering system which combine a background, a foreground and a chromakey video layer in between.

Virtual Sets in particular are a great way to increase your production quality and surprise your students or co-workers with some cool sweeping zooms, and panning camera movements inside of virtual sets. Once you do this, you have the full capabilities of vMix or OBS to create video production quality content inside of your Zoom meetings. This is done using a “virtual” webcam input with Zoom, instead of a regular webcam.

Some of our most popular blogs and video content in recent past have been all about connecting OBS and/or vMix with Zoom. It’s time to really impress your co-workers and meeting attendees in your next Zoom session.

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